 it's got triple power it's got pedals a paddle of course and a motor the paddle also doubles as a kid entry gangplank you may be wondering why my pedal gears are a little noisy it's because i made them they're not perfect i made pretty much everything on the boat hulls molds for the hulls pedal parts switches out of copper pipe the steering thing which is racking pinion you can see right under here whatever you call these things made the paddle now the things i didn't make myself let's start with the solar panels after extensive begging in other words sending out a whole bunch of emails to solar panel places asking for sponsorships this company in Italy solbion they sent me these four solar panels oh thank you so much to you guys oh i love them i love them oh so good all right the motor that's back here is a leason one horsepower 24 volt dc motor i got it for 30 bucks on amazon totally lucky because they're like 600 normally it was just in some obscure listing somewhere i found it used and i took it this is the charge controller i'm using it's a zandtrex something or other it's uh c35 and i think they're 90 dollars 100 somewhere around 100 i did buy that new now the other stuff in my trunk here i don't know how much this speed controller cost because i i got it from someone used and i got this from a surplus place and all these batteries in here are lifepo fours lithium iron phosphate batteries i got those used on ebay now why have solar panel covers well these are the lightweight solar panels so they have a plastic coating on top they don't last as long as the uh the glass ones these are maybe five to seven years so if i keep them covered most of the time that will greatly extend their life okay some performance stats top speed in this thing is a little over nine miles per hour right now i think if i tweak the propellers a little more which i also built so i can still mess with them i think i can get it over 10 but i'm not going to worry about that right now because more importantly everything's running smoothly and efficiently and i can go six miles an hour without even using the batteries just running off three of the solar panels while one charges the batteries and pedaling at a very leisurely pace so that means i can go six miles an hour pretty much all day so what's my range in this thing well as long as the sun's out pretty much indefinite in terms of just running off the batteries with no sun i haven't actually done a full charge to dead test yet but i'd say 20 or 30 minutes probably at full speed so maybe 20 miles on a charge but i never plan to run it you know in the dark full speed anyway so that's kind of a pointless thing i built this boat so i can go to town and back which is 16 miles away roughly 15 ish uh so that's a 30 plus mile trip round trip and as long as i do that in the sun i shouldn't have any problems oh it's just i know that one day there's going to be a dark gloomy day that just shows up halfway in the trip in which case i'll just paddle even more important than that it is so fun to drive this thing a couple other features this hatch up here opens and you can put stuff in the uh the hood there in the trunk i guess if you pull this metal thing out of there these pontoons can swing in to make the boat skinnier to fit in skinny places and i gotta say it comes with an incredible view and then the pedal propeller is right down there if you want to know how to build one or you just want to see how i did it there is an extensive list of videos going through the entire build of everything in nauseating detail i'll try to remember to put the link to the first one down here somewhere oh someone's gonna ask me the name of the boat well like many great names it kind of started out as a joke zombie chopper zombie because the boat's all self-contained it doesn't need gasoline or anything outside so it'll work in a zombie apocalypse and uh chopper because the front edge of the boat is like real sharp now slicer was taken by the shark slicer so this one got chopper besides my kids love it when i say kids get to the chopper